Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biddies a quarter-century ago was "Tim O'Biddle," ring name of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur boxers of his day. In 1908 he stayed four rounds with "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien. Biddle Sr.'s other great passion was for Christ and somehow mystically he combined the two in a movement called Athletic Christianity. Mixing Bible lessons with boxing bouts, he would tell his young disciples: "I want you boys to go in there and fight as if Christ were the referee...
...JOLIET . . . SAN QUENTIN. Do these names and others, mean anything to you? A quarter of a million men and women are behind the bars today of Federal, State, County and City jails or reformatories. Their true stories comprise a veritable book of Arabian Nights for romance, adventure, love, excitement, passion, bravery, thrills and courageous sacrifice. These stories are being written for WARDEN LEWIS E. LAWES...
...translation to the screen, for, although its people sit around and talk a lot, they at least talk with wit. One funny situation occurs when Reed, not recognizing Marshall as his rival in love, begs him, as a playmaker, to devise a dramatic way for him to express his passion for Miss Sidney, and then proceeds to win her by completely disregarding the scene which Marshall has concocted for him. Another comes with Miss Sidney's discovery that a young husband who gets her up at 7 o'clock and makes her spend her waking hours at violent...
Ginger, Jane Withers' first starring picture, is uncomplicated enough to conform to the limited rules laid down for child heroines denied the privilege of passion. It details the education of an urchin. Phase No. 1 displays her as a tenement scamp named Ginger, haphazardly raised by a bibbing old foster uncle (0. P. Heg-gie). In the role of brat, she stones windows, pastes neighborhood friends with fruit, eludes policemen by sliding gaily down a coal chute, fabricates glibly and frequently...
Though Colonel Morse is a remote figure to most of his staff, he insists on having his research director in an adjoining office. Not a penny has been scrimped on research during Depression, for the Colonel's passion is mechanical improvement of his products-a stronger selling point for industrial goods than for consumer goods, in which style, color, packaging are often all-important. Fairbanks, Morse always tries to sell the pump that goes with the windmill for the generator that goes with the Diesel engine, so that it will have undivided responsibility for the engineering of the complete...